Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
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We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live - at least for me, that's the way I want to write.
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When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?
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Knowing that girls are inspired to not have the burden of self-hate, even if it's a tiny way, makes me happy to no end. It gets me up in the morning and softens a lot of the blows I get.
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One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.
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Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
